The idea of mashing peanuts together to make a peanut paste or butter was not unique to George Washington Carver. Peanut butter was known to the Inca of South America, and probably to even more ancient tribes before them. Carver popularized the use of peanuts with over 300 uses, but he did not in fact patent any of his ideas based on religious grounds.
A crude form of peanut butter was sold in the 19th Century, but would have no resemblance to the peanut butter we eat today. Plain mashed peanuts produces an oily, rough, and sticky paste which isn't easy to market. Key inventions which aided the process of producing peanut butter did more to "discover" peanut butter than anything else.
No he didn't - the Indians did.
AnswerGeorge Washington Carver didn't discover peanuts; rather, he discovered how to make peanut butter (as well as a whole bunch of other peanut products). See the Related Link below for a list.
He wanted poor farmers in the south to grow alternative crops (one of which was peanuts, because of their symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria which fertilize the soil) but to get them to try growing these crops he also had to provide new uses for them. The most popular of his 44 bulletins for farmers listed 105 preexisting food recipes made with peanuts. He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful around the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and even nitroglycerin.
However he did not invent peanut butter, that goes back to the Aztecs and had been manufactured and sold by various U.S. and Canadian food companies for more than a decade before he began his own work on peanut products. However his bulletins quickly popularized peanut butter throughout the country, creating a public demand for it.
All the inventions below were invented by Dr. Carver. As nearly as I have been able to determine, all these inventions used some part of the peanut plant:
He might have, but he didn't invent it if that's what you were really trying to ask.
George Washington Carver invented peanuts and a lot more things from peanuts he was also called a peanut scientist. I'm glad to help you today about this!
George Washington Carver didn't invent peanuts.
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George Washington Carver discovered peanuts and invented many things out of them.
George Washington Carver invented many things from peanuts.
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So many peanuts were being grown, that George Washington Carver had to find other uses for peanuts.
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George Washington Carver is important because he discovered many uses for peanuts.
What did George Washington do in the early history
He discovered peanuts in 1922.